Art 100 mid-term

inspiration for contemporary artists

Pablo Picasso set his skills again the artist Velazquez. Picasso did this with other artist's too.

Considerations of architects while designing buildings

Planned location, techniques, and materials

Proportion

The size relationships between parts of an object, affects how a viewer will intercept it

Characteristics shared by all sculptures

They exist in three dimensions and occupy physical space in our world

Calligraphy takes hold where?

Where literacy takes hold, calligraphy develops as an art that expresses layers of meaning

memento mori

an artwork designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of shortness and fragility of human life

Cave paintings

applied blowing saliva and pigment solutions through a small tube

Rhythm (used in photography)

arises through the repetition of pattern and does apply to photography

Divisions between art and craft that occur at this time

began during the Renaissance, it was unique to Western culture, and it has broken down in the last to centuries

round sculpture

can be seen from all sides, sculpture designed in the round can be viewed from nearly every angle

Formal analysis

considers the way in which the elements and principles of art applied in an artwork

Unity and types of unity

creating order or wholeness. there are 3 types com-positional, conceptual, and gestalt

alternative media and processes

focus and relationships to traditional art making. Artworks made by using them can break down categorizes of traditional artworks and focus our attention on things we might over look

The difference between geometric and organic shapes/forms

geometric shapes are composed of regular lines and curves while organic shapes are made of unpredictable, irregular lines that suggest natural world

Muybridge's experiments with motion

he proved that cameras could see what the human eye can't

A flat work of art has two dimensions

height and width

Spatial measurements of three-dimensional artwork

height, width, and depth

Facade

is any size of a building, usually the front or entrance,that is intended to be looked at

Scale and types of scales

is the size of an object or artwork relative to another object or artwork. The two types are hierarchical and distorted scale

one color on the color wheel and one emotional meaning

red- love/passion

Value

refer to light and darkness

First reproduced printmaking created by this culture

reproduced by print making by Mesopotamia

mechanics of camera

similar those of the human eye. Just as the light enters to eye it enters an opening in the front of the camera called the aperture, just like the eye a camera can zoom in and out using a lens

Paint

the most basic form of pigment suspended into a liquid binder

essence of visual communication design

the use of symbols to communicate information and ideas

Why do people draw

to define their ideas

Materials that could be used to create sculptures

Glass, wax, ice, plastic, stone, and fiber

Chiarocuro

Italian for light-dark, its a method of applying value to a two-dimensionalpiece of artwork to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks atmosphere and content

Nighthawks reflects the solemn mood many felt in the U.S at the beginning of WW2. The people are quiet and still. This photo shows loneliness

Photography

"drawing with light" or writing with light"

List the principles of design

1. Balance 2.Contrast 3.Emphasis 4.Focal Point 5.Pattern 6.Prop osition 7.Rhythm 8.Scale 9.Unity 10.Variety

Formal elements of art

1. Color 2. Form 3. Line 4. Mass 5. Shape 6. Space 7. Texture 8. Time and Motion 9. Value 10. Volume

acceptable research source in art history

A museum website

Importance of biographical/historical analysis to understanding works of art

After considering the art using the various methods of analysis, scholars are able to arrive at a hypothesis. They're important to know if you want to understand Velazquez's work

Relationships of color on the color wheel complimentary/analogous

Colors opposite each other on the color wheel are complementary colors. Colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel are analogous colors. These colors don't contrast strongly with either

Ceramic

Comes from Greek work keramos meaning pottery

Types of Motion/Time used in visual art

Traditional visual arts, such as painting are inherently static, but artist have found initiative ways of conveying the elements of time and motion. Actual motion is occurring when we see movement in real life